Malifaux Terrain

City and Wilderness

I've been slowly building some terrain for Malifaux, which has been a lot of fun - actually having to think about making stuff from scratch is very different to building a kit or following a plan. This is the page with all of the terrain on it

The buildings come from a few main sources.

The Warbases basics building range, which I picked up a load of at Warfare 2014 after my rather short first game in the FoGR competition. These are really cheap basic blocky buildings (did I say they were cheap), and they also sell some nice doors and windows to stick on them too. BUt best of all is their roofing tiles, which are very thing card, that is pre-punched so it comes out of the sheet really easily and can be glued onto a roof to create a neat tiled effect.

Made out of from scratch. This stuff is really easy to use, light and strong. Imagine 2 sheets of plastic-ey card with a layer of dense packaging foam between, that you can cut with a sharp craft knife and then glue with wood/PVA glue. It does need a skim of plaster before painting though, as neither the plastic facing nor the interior structure of expanded polystyrene takes paint very well at all - it can end up bubbling and melting if you are not careful.

Bits and bobs from The Troll Trader's TT Combat range of scenery - a laser-cut 3mm MDF set of scenery from one of EBays best traders at the moment.

The Gothic buildings from Pegasus

Various other MDF buildings from other sources.

I've also bought terrain mats from Deepcut, which are excellent and highly recommended.

These are the first buildings to be sort-of finished. The tower is a Warbases tower, with their roofing material. I glued the windows on, blu-tacked the doors and then glued sand to the walls. Once it dried the doors (and shutters) came off, and I sprayed the whole thing black, then gave it a dusting spray (as in I sprayed it from about 1-2 feet, and with fairly fast passes, as I didn't want to properly coat the black with grey). Both sprays were car undercoat sprays from Halfords. The gears on the tower are a vague attempt to make it look more Steampunk, and came from an eBay seller who sells 25g pots of old watch parts to use in scrapbooking and crafts.

The walkways are made from foam board, again covered in sand and sprayed in the same way. I made sure the walkways were wide enough for 5omm bases, and that the steps didn't have "fronts" so that a larger base woudl fit underneath each step to allow larger models to balance on them without having to have 50mm-deep steps (which would have looked a bit odd). The wooden slats on the top are just strips of thin cardboard cut semi-randomly and glued down. They were then painted and drybrushed with several different woody-browns, starting with my favourite, GW's Graveyard Earth, which I think now goes by another name...

This shows the doors and windows from Warbases - I've just given the doors a slight drybrush/wash with some other browns to give them a bit more life and key them into the wood elsewhere

I'm getting close to having more of this stuff ready, so more will be on this site soon!

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